D.Moor wrote: "Art and laughter are the weapons of our fight". After the October coup the authorities put forward a goal for the caricaturists - to destroy and demolish the old world, unmask capitalists, fight against the revivals of capitalism, bring up a "new person" with the help of political posters and caricatures. Such posters like "Soviet Repka" by D. Moor (1920), "Does God exist and what is the origin of the Earth?" by M. Cheremnikh (1925), "Gnats" by V. Deni (1931), and some others simplified the most difficult problems, made them closer to the illiterate. To survive in that changing world a peasant, a worker should learn how to adapt and act in new environment. Posters explained to them everything: what to do, to think, to praise, to swear, to laugh at.

During the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) satiric posters and caricatures had become almost the leading kind of art. They made fun of the enemy and called to the fight against it. The works by Kukriniksi of that period were very popular; the artists ridiculed Nazi leaders; their names were black-listed by fascists. In 1956 V. Briskin and K. Ivanov created the first satiric propaganda poster. Soon a group of artists united to work at propaganda posters, this group was headed by B. Efimov. The purpose of their work was to spread noble and progressive ideas among the Soviet people, to teach them to hate enemies and fight for peace all over the world. The subjects of those posters were "very Soviet": "Black Africa with the Torch of Freedom"(1957), about spongers, mods and self-conceit, etc.